This is why it would be hard for me to make a fruit tier list. I think you need to have 2 lists, a list for each fruit at mid and a list for each fruit at its best. For example, I tend to eat apples, strawberries, or grapefruits pretty regularly even when they are not at their best because I still enjoy them at mid so in my mind they would be top of the mid list. But something like a peach or a pineapple will be at the top of the other list even though I probably won't eat them at mid. I have a simple rule for peaches which is if I am in the store and I can smell them, I have to buy them. Works every time and I get damn good peaches that way. I've always wanted to try a fresh peach off a tree and I imagine it's like fruit heroin.

I didn't think I liked tomatoes. And then I had the greatest tomato ever. Nothing has even come close

That plum still haunts my every living moments

The food you buy in supermarkets is usually not the best tasting food. It's more likely to be optimised for shelf stability and price than taste - so fruit will be pulled off the plant before it's ripe so that it won't spoil before it gets to you.

Letting your fruit ripen at home before eating it helps, but growing your own is the best way to eat tasty things.

I grew up surrounded by orchards and farms. The best fruit, melon, strawberries, whatever. The fruit in stores is shit. It’s all bred to survive shipping snd have as long a shelf life as possible, all at the expense of texture and flavor.

No wonder people don’t like fruit. It’s hard, sour, waxed, bruised, bland, dried out, etc. It‘s shit.

Unless you happen to live someplace where the local fruit can be picked and shipped right to the store in season - assuming the store doesn‘t ship in their fruit by contract anyway.

Many of the cacti that produce dragonfruit are surprisingly easy to grow and bloom and can even make pretty decent houseplants for those who live in areas without a tropical climate. I don't know about your specific situation or the finer details of the one amazing dragonfruit you had, but like so many things, home grown and fresh harvested dragonfruit usually tastes better than store bought. Just a thought, but if you haven't already considered it, maybe give it a try and grow your own. It'll probably be a few years (or more), but better than waiting a lifetime.

Fruits and vegetables in general. 90% of my baby carrots are worse than that one I had that one time.

plenty of good peaches are out there to be had.

eating them conveniently during the day instead of setting specific fruit eating time, now that's the challenge.

Also, Stamets, just substitute for kiwi fruit; they are basically the same but more intense.

My grandmother had an apricot tree in her backyard. I have never had any apricots nearly as good as those were.

You have to get a peach that was allowed to ripen on the tree and eat it as fresh as possible to get that experience consistently. I never knew how good a peach could be until I visited the Okanagan for the first time.

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Also: Kiwi fruits

Years ago I read "Mexico" by James Mitchener and he wrote something similar about bullfights.

He said you had to watch a thousand bad bull fights before you saw a really good one.

And I've never even watched a video of a real bull fight, so don't tell me how inhumane they are.

Same experience. But I got another one. It wasn't one from the next supermarket, it was one from a real streetmarket, highly overpriced, but worth it.

For me it was a random fruit stand in Rome.